Mercy Hospital and School for Nurses

Philadelphia’s second "Negro hospital" was co-founded
by Jeffersonians Dr. Henry Minton and Dr. Algernon Jackson in 1907
at 17th and Fitzwater Streets. In 1919 the hospital moved to a larger
structure, formerly an Episcopal Divinity School at 50th Street
and Woodlawn Avenue, and operated there until 1948.

In 1948, Mercy Hospital merged with the city’s first hospital for
African Americans, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and School
for Nurses (founded in 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania's
first black medical school graduate, Dr. Nathan F. Mossell) to form
Mercy-Douglass. Soon afterward the combined hospital built a new
and fully modern facility. Through much of its existence this institution
was largely funded by the community it served, until its closing
in 1973.

Mercy Hospital (later Mercy-Douglass)
Mercy Hospital was housed in this structure from 1919-1948
and was located in West Philadelphia.
A modern nine-story building replaced it in 1955.